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A piano you can’t touch
the music is trapped
your hands are itching
but those keys remain hostage
locked in prison walls of their beauty
that maple, gleaming beauty
too lovely to handle too magical to hear
but I am begging you to touch that body
feel those lines and embrace those curves
because that lady in the corner of their parlor
is screaming to be heard
scratch the finish
and dirty the notes
because jazz wasn’t born in a posh room
playing by the rules and keeping to a metronome
ticka, ticka… Continue

Maybe the words form juicy on the fruit and drip down your arm
Leaving a sticky stream in its wake
Maybe the scene is so full, so alive, that it moves without you
And you have to brace yourself just to stay on board
Or maybe the theme is a spark that ignites your world
And you know will never release your mind

It’s writer’s lust,
you love it so much you wished you had thought of it yourself
How great to say I created that
Because you feel so connected to it already
It touches you so deep, how c… Continue

I wanted to tell him how he should be
To teach him how they are
How we are
How I am
He was loose and skinny
A rope with knots in all the wrong places
Not being quiet
Not being smart enough
Not being cool
I wanted to fix him
So it would all be ok
So he could be heard
Be seen
Be accepted
But that’s not how it happened
I wanted to tell him that I love him
For who he is
That I love him because he’s my brother
But I had a knot of my own
In my throat
So I kept pushing
Telling him he needs to be like t… Continue

They say we can be whatever we want
But what happens when you’re a little girl
And all you want to be is a cupcake
What happens when you’re fifty with a family and a mortgage
And all you want to be is a farmer
What happens when you’re nineteen in college and all you want to be is
All you want to be is

They say if you do something you love you’ll never work a day in your life
But what happens when you work every damn day?
fixated with every little move across that checker board to success
You be… Continue